amenohi.
March 14, 2011 | 7:51 AM
曲：冷雨夜 - Beyond
冷雨夜我在你身邊 盼望你會知
When you get rain like this in Singapore, you'd wake up in the early morning to stand by the window to breathe in the freshness of the rain mixed with the smell of dawn, and then when you had your fill you'd go back to bed again with that blanket wrapped securely around yourself.
At least that's what I would do. Here in Seattle, you still do wrap that blanket tightly around yourself, but if you even venture to open the window you get hit by a blast of freezing rain and wind in your face, so it's just switching the heater on instead. The thoughts that go on in your head stay the same though.
---
I didn't really want to see the pictures of Japan after the earthquake and tsunami, so I held off for a couple of days. In the end I decided to click one of the multitude of links on facebook because I couldn't just ignore it anymore. Explosion after explosion in the nuclear reactor plants, aftershock after aftershock, and wave after wave of news pouring in on twitter and facebook and rss feeds. I skipped fast past the scenes of destruction, cause seeing them didn't help in any way. The pictures that stopped me in my tracks were the ones of the
jieitai carrying the elderly and the stranded back to safety. The stories that touched me most were the
tweets from the Japanese people, little stories of how people helped each other in the aftermath. It does sound a little cliche and all, but if times like this don't call for clicheness I don't know what will.
こういう時はあなたに分かって欲しい
velda.
